Akane Otani

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Why Stocks Have Lost Their Luster With Some Investors · 9 Mar 2023 podcast

Right now, a lot of bonds are actually paying in this sort of single high to mid single digit percentage range.

And that's a lot more than bonds have been offering for a very long period after the 2008 financial crisis.

So that's one reason why we're seeing a lot of investors say bonds look like a compelling alternative to the stock market right now.

And then another area just generally that investors have seen some interest in investors among is

emerging markets.

So we're talking about markets where the economy is still developing.

So big emerging markets tend to be like China, a lot of countries in Africa, a lot of sort of South Asian economies.

And investors are saying that stocks, bonds, real estate, things in those markets are looking a lot more compelling as well.

So what I've been hearing from a lot of financial advisors and investors is that it's never wise to completely pull out all of the money that you have right now and then go like 100% into a different market.

It's more about gradually shifting the mix of

assets that you have.

So maybe right now you're 60% in US stocks and 40% in US bonds.

Well, one type of shift that we've been seeing is some investors are recommending their clients shift that 60% in US stocks.

So maybe they're more like 50% in US stocks and 10% in emerging market stocks.

We're talking gradual shifts like that.

Another common shift that we've been seeing a lot of investors talk about is putting a bit more money into cash, which is interesting because, again, for many years after the 2008 financial crisis, it kind of seemed like a loss to just put your money into cash and essentially earn no money on that.

at all if it's sitting in your bank account.

But now with interest rates rising, a lot of investors have been saying cash and cash-like investments are actually offering somewhat more of a compelling return, especially just considering all of the uncertainty that we still have about the economy.

It's sort of nice for a lot of investors to think, well, if everything goes down, I still have a little bit of cash in my accounts that I can fall back on.

Well, I think one of the easiest ways for individuals to get into investing in general is ETFs and mutual funds.

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